Countertenors — male opera singers who can sing very, very, very high — were a rarity when David Daniels came along. Now, nearly 20 years later, the American-born Daniels says countertenors are ...

Until the mid-nineteenth century, opera was wedded to rhythm and rhyme. Librettists supplied composers with heaps of verse for arias and other vocal numbers, alongside chunks of prose recitative that ...

St. Louis is a hard — no, make that impossible — town for a singer to earn a living. Tenor Keith Boyer is making a name for himself anyway. A member of the St. Louis Symphony Chorus, he was tapped to ...